“Oh great”, you say, “fares are trending down from Europe to the U.S. when I’m more interested in going from the U.S. to Europe.”
Don’t get frazzled, get Freudian.
Apply a little reverse psychology to the problem and you can end up over there and well ahead.
This short report is aimed at those who travel to Europe a couple of times a year or more. That said, it can also work for one-trip-yearly travelers, too. It just depends on the particular deal.
Fares: Come on Down.
Fares are trending down from Europe to the U.S. as evidenced here with some recent finds reported by FCF:
- Stockholm → Boston Business Class $1,429 R/T. Original deal.
- Manchester → Boston Business Class $1,245 R/T. Original deal.
- Oslo → New York Business Class $774 R/T. Original deal.
- Manchester → Boston Business Class $1,252 R/T. Original deal.
- London → Boston First Class $2,343 R/T. Original deal.
- Dublin → Boston Business Class $1,478 R/T. Original deal.
- Berlin → New York Business Class $1,065 R/T. Original deal.
- Dublin → West Coast Business Class $1,603 R/T. Original deal.
Apply Reverse Psychology
Conventional thinking says if you want to go to Europe, you buy a return ticket to Europe. Reverse psychology says you buy a ticket to the U.S. from Europe to take advantage of this very lucrative trend. Now, as mentioned, it obviously works best if you’re making a couple of trips to Europe because you have to go back to Europe to make the fare work. The idea is to bookend the deal with one-way tickets to and from Europe like this:
[aside headline="Feeling Trendy?" alignment="alignright" width="half" headline_size="default"]FCF loves to look at current trends. Other fare trends recently found (which you likely won't hear about elsewhere) include a drop in Business Class fares from the West Coast to Europe, a trend started by Delta in 2012. Also discovered were premium fare trends to Nairobi, Tel Aviv, India, New Zealand, Transcons, Domestic First Class, First Class to Europe, and South America.[/aside]
- U.S to Europe: one-way ticket with miles or first leg of best round-trip deal
- Europe to U.S.: first leg of incredibly low round-trip deal (similar to the deals above)
- U.S. to Europe: second leg of incredibly low round-trip deal
- Europe to U.S.: one-way ticket with miles, OR first leg of second incredibly low-return deal, OR second leg of the best round-trip deal used to start the reverse psychology
Take your pick.